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Mokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2017 During the years of soviet occupation, housing policy was one of the most important state issues and projects of standardized designs were authorized and distributed by the state.
Aistė Galaunytė
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Disability and Citizenship in Post-Soviet Ukraine: An Anthropological Critique [PDF]
, 2005 [Excerpt] In this paper I examine Ukraine’s burgeoning disability rights movement through the lens of citizenship to illustrate the complex processes through which certain categories of people (here, persons with disabilities) are transforming themselves—
Phillips, Sarah D
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China's Strategic Approach to Tech Diplomacy in a Time of Global Uncertainty
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the wake of U.S.‐China technological competition and the COVID‐19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence in Chinese political and academic discourse. This concept is often ideologically framed to critique Western hegemonic narratives perceived as hindering China's technological advancement.
Zhao Alexandre Huang, Xiang Meng
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The 1934-1935 Competition for the Preliminary Design for the Academy of Sciences: The Circumstances of Commissioning the Design to A.V. Shchusev [PDF]
Художественная культураThe article is devoted to the analysis of the closed competition for the preliminary design of the building complex for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, which was held from October 1934 to January 1935.
Antipin Konstantin
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Evolving Geopolitics and Japan's Economic Security–Trade Nexus: ‘New Capitalism’ as a Balancing Act?
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid intensifying geopolitical tensions, governments increasingly perceive economic interdependence as a strategic vulnerability. Japan, situated geopolitically between two great powers—the United States and China—attempts to navigate geopolitics by prioritising economic security.
Minako Morita‐Jaeger
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Key pedagogic thinkers: Anton Makarenko [PDF]
, 2014 This article gives an introduction to the life and work of the Ukrainian social pedagogue and educational theorist Anton Makarenko. In the early part of the 1920s, he formulated a theory that he further developed while helping orphans under the most ...
Halvorsen, Terje
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
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Cultural Memory and Survival: The Russian Renaissance of Classical Antiquity in the Twentieth Century [PDF]
, 2009 In this first publication of the UCL SSEES Inaugural Lecture Series, Pamela Davidson dedicates her professorial lecture to the memory of two "outstanding Russian scholars and remarkable individuals, whose contribution to our understanding of classical ...
Davidson, P
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Critical Post-Functionalism in the Architecture of Late Soviet Central Asia
ABE Journal, 2018 Relying on all but forgotten texts of architectural criticism from late Soviet Central Asia, the article explores the discursive strategies employed by architects, critics, and historians to justify the shift away from the rigid functionalism of the ...
Igor Demchenko
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